[Bug 1305116] Re: Installation fails when installing GRUB to disk

[Rune K. Svendsen]

I was able to fix this issue the following way.

Apparently, my motherboard (ASUS M5A97 EVO R2.0) can boot a USB drive in
two ways:

1) using UEFI
2) using the standard way (BIOS?)

I originally booted the Ubuntu 14.04 USB installation drive using UEFI
(I didn't realize there would be a difference), and this caused the
installation of GRUB to fail at the end of the installation step, and
being met with a GRUB prompt when booting the system after installation.
Mind you, I'm not using UEFI to boot the installed system (as far as I
can tell). Perhaps this is the reason it didn't work.

After realizing this, I booted the Ubuntu 14.04 installation USB stick
using the regular BIOS (not UEFI), and everything proceeded without
problems, and I'm writing this from my newly installed Ubuntu 14.04
system.

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Title:
  Installation fails when installing GRUB to disk

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my machine, the installation fails at
  the step where GRUB is installed onto the disk. I got a message saying
  something like:

  "Installation of GRUB to disk /dev/sdd failed. This is a fatal error".

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.12 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.339
  Date: Wed Apr  9 16:52:27 2014
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140409)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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